Copyright

All the edited photographs displayed on this website are displayed under the copyright of Paul Stott Photography and are protected under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. For clients who have bought digital files as part of our service, Paul Stott Photography does grant reproduction rights.

Clients are entitled to use them for personal and non-commercial purposes, including producing prints, posters, canvas wraps, books, and other printed matter, multi-media slideshows, and other computer or electronic media projects and sharing on social media.

The reproduction rights exclude the sale of the digital files or items produced from the files for commercial gain, advertising, publicity, or any other commercial use without the written permission from Paul Stott Photography. If permission is required to use any digital files commercially, or for any other use not listed here, or if any doubt exists as to the extent of licensed usage, then please contact us.

If you are a third party, such as wedding vendors, media, or magazines, and would like to use some of my pictures then please contact Paul Stott Photography.

 

GDPR Compliant Privacy Policy

We want to protect your privacy and confidentiality. We understand that all users of our web site are interested to know that their data is being used lawfully. Regulation (GDPR), and in accordance with the country-specific data protection regulations applicable to Paul Stott Photography. By means of this data protection declaration, our enterprise would like to inform the general public of the nature, scope, and purpose of the personal data we collect, use, and process. Furthermore, data subjects are informed, by means of this data protection declaration, of the rights to which they are entitled.

We have carried out measures to ensure the most complete protection of personal data processes throughout this website as well as following ICO guidelines. You can find information about ICO at their website https://ico.org.uk/

 

Information we process due to having a contract with clients:

When you buy a product or service from us, or otherwise agree to our terms and conditions, a term of business contract is formed between us.

In order to carry out our obligations under that contract, we must process the information you give us. Some of this information may be personal information.

We may use it in order to:

• sell products to you
• provide you with our services
• provide you with suggestions and advice on products, services and how to obtain the most from using our website

We process this information on the basis there is a contract between us, or that you have requested we use the information before we enter into legal terms of a business contract. We shall continue to process this information until the contract between us ends or is terminated by either party under the terms of the business contract.

Information we process with your consent:

Where there is no contractual relationship between us, such as when you browse our website or ask us to provide you more information about our business, including our products and services, you provide your consent to us to process information that may be personal information.

The website of Paul Stott Photography contains information that enables a quick electronic contact to our enterprise, as well as direct communication with us, which also includes a general address of the so-called electronic mail. If you contact us via a contact form, the personal data transmitted by the data subject are used to reasonably make contact with you. Such personal data transmitted on a voluntary basis by a data subject to the data controller are stored for the purpose of processing or contacting the data subject. There is no transfer of this personal data to third parties.

We continue to process your information on this basis until you withdraw your consent, or it can be reasonably assumed that your consent no longer exists.

You may withdraw your consent at any time by instructing us.

We may collect the following Data, which includes personal Data, from you:

a.name;

b.contact Information such as email addresses and telephone numbers;

c.IP address (automatically collected);

d.web browser type and version (automatically collected);

e.operating system (automatically collected);

f.a list of URLs starting with a referring site, your activity on this Website, and the site you exit to (automatically collected);

g.wedding details;

Data that is given to us by you

Paul Stott Photography will collect your Data in a number of ways, for example:

When you contact us through the Website, by telephone, post, e-mail, or through any other means.

When you use our services.

To the extent that you access the Website, we will collect your Data automatically, for example:

We automatically collect some information about your visit to the Website. This information helps us to make improvements to Website content and navigation and includes your IP address, the date, times, and frequency with which you access the Website, and the way you use and interact with its content.

Links to other websites:

This Website may, from time to time, provide links to other websites. We have no control over such websites and are not responsible for the content of these websites. This privacy policy does not extend to your use of such websites. You are advised to read the privacy policy or statement of other websites prior to using them.

Legitimate interest:

As part of wedding photography, clients would reasonably expect their images might be used for marketing purposes under legitimate interest of business. This is used in a way that has minimal impact on privacy. Using images for Paul Stott Photography is necessary to show our work and to engage with future clients. By entering into a wedding business contract couples agree that their images might be used for marketing, however, this might not always be the case. If couples wish to have a fully private wedding with a guarantee of no usage of images please inform the photographer so this can be added to the contract. 

Aged 16 or Under?

If you are aged 16 or under‚ please get your parent or guardian’s permission before you provide me with personal information.

Disclosure to government and their agencies:

We may be required to give information to legal authorities if they request, or if they have the proper authorisation.